Edited and translated by People's Daily Online
The key to developing forward-looking China-Japan relations lies in advancing the two systematic programs of deepening mutual political trust and boosting exchanges between the people of the two countries, said Tang Jiaxuan, head of the Chinese delegation to the fifth 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship, at the third annual meeting of the body.
"I have pointed out during my talks with Former Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami that the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once said that some problems between China and Japan could be left to future generations to resolve," Tang said.
Anami replied that we are simply the later generation that Deng spoke of.
Well, we should gain more wisdom as a later generation of Chinese and Japanese who were pioneers in forging friendly ties between the two countries. It is just like what Anami said that China and Japan established the friendly ties just because they overcame their differences.
Given the differences in values, the two countries had found a common ground and treated each other in a friendly manner. Therefore, China and Japan established official diplomatic ties in the 1980s. Thereafter, although their differences in values have narrowed because of China's market-oriented economic development, the problems between the two countries have been on the rise.
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